Saturday, March 13,
A Day of Extended Worship
sponsored by Salem Quarter
at Wellesley Friends Meeting
In keeping with the Yearly Meeting theme of Jubilee, which involves rest and relaxation, Salem Quarter is sponsoring a day-long extended meeting for worship on Saturday March 13th. This will be held at Wellesley Meeting. This is an opportunity to worship more deeply than is possible in an hour long meeting. In hopes that many of you from all the meetings in the Boston area will be able to attend, this advance notice is posted. Details will follow.
Recent Events
Salem Quarterly Meeting at the Boston Pride Parade. Friends from 6 area meetings and Beacon Hill Friends House walked with this banner. Wellesley Friends have participated for several years. (photo: Jeff Hipp)
Recent Meetings:
Racial Justice in the Religious Society of Friends: An Unfinished Story
Reading about how Friends have been as prone to racism and discrimination as our compatriots in Vanessa Julye and Donna McDaniel's new book, Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship can be a real challenge. Recognizing this, Friends General Conference's Committee for Ministry on Racism is endorsing the release of the book by providing skilled workshop leaders to help meetings and groups explore the issues raised. At our October 26 meeting two of these facilitators, Dwight & Maureen Lopes, led us in a sampling of the exercises that would constitute a full workshop. For notes from our meeting click here. To learn more about inviting a facilitator to your meeting, click here.How can we talk about it?
Click here to see materials on Talking about Sexual Ethics - Where to Start - a description of the process for effective exploration of challenging topics that Melody Brazo led us through at ourJanuary workshop.News of previous meetings.
Meetings in Our Quarter
Salem Quarterly Meeting is made up of nine meetings, one preparative meeting and several worship groups in the Greater Boston area. These links lead to web sites for the meetings which are on the internet and information sheets for those which do not have web sites.
Quarterly Meeting Schedule
Quarterly Meetings generally fall on the fourth Sunday of October, January and April. Our Summer Picnic date and location are set at our April meeting. Quarterly Meeting Ministry and Counsel committee meets about a month before the October and April meetings.
- 25 October 2009 - Beacon Hill Meeting
- 24 January 2010 - Friends Meeting at Cambridge
- 25 April 2010 - Framingham Friends Meeting